Prof. Bogdan Musiał

Jan Karski Institute for War Losses, Poland

Bogdan Musial studied history, political science and sociology at the Leibniz University of Hannover (1990 to 1998) and the University of Manchester (1992/93). In 1998, he gained his doctorate with a work on the treatment of Jews in occupied Poland. Afterwards, he was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw (1999-2004) and later the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw (2007-2011). In 2004, he obtained his habilitation from the Cardinal Wyszynski University Warsaw, where he was a professor for Central and Eastern European Studies between 2010 and 2015. In 2017 he returned to the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw, and began working on a research project focusing on prisoner physicians in Auschwitz.

He has published numerous works on Holocaust, German, Soviet and Polish history, including: Deutsche Zivilverwaltung und Judenverfolgung im Generalgouvernement. Eine Fallstudie zum Distrikt Lublin 1939-1944, Wiesbaden 1999; “The Origins of “Operation Reinhard”: The Decision-Making Process for the Mass Murder of the Jews in the Generalgouvernement”, in: Yad Vashem Studies 27 (2000), pp. 113-153; “Konterrevolutionäre Elemente sind zu erschießen”. Die Brutalisierung des deutsch-sowjetischen Krieges im Sommer 1941, Berlin & München 2000; Kampfplatz Deutschland. Stalins Kriegspläne gegen den Westen, München & Berlin 2008; Sowjetische Partisanen 1941–1944. Mythos und Wirklichkeit, Paderborn 2009; Stalins Beutezug. Die Plünderung Deutschlands und der Aufstieg der Sowjetunion zur Weltmacht, Berlin 2010.